The Brookhaven leader., 1887-03-03
TOWN AND COUNTY ITEMS.


leans Tuesday evening.
A heavy frost Sunday night and some
report a glimpse OF solid water.
Mrs. II. +. johnson is on a visit to Mrs.
Corrie Campbell, of Lodi, Miss.
Prof. A. J. Maxey, of Bogue Chitto,
maid MS welcome call Saturday.
Mrs. Gartman and Miss Lou attended
Mardi Gras and report fine trip.
Stamp photos at Hughes & Patricks
Art Gallery, $l.5O per one hundred.
The w. C.. T. U. will meet this after
noon at Mrs. J. w. Martins residence.
Bishop Galloway and Miss Willie have
returned from Florida and New Orleans.
The Methodist mite meeting will be
held Tomorrow night at Mr. Sam Magee's.
MIR. Wilson Price, an old Brrokhaven
boy, has been spending seveyal days in
town.
A correspondent says since the saloon
closed Boeue Chitto is as "dry as q
chip"
Our worthy City marshal, Aaron Hurst,
has added comfortable additions to his
residence.
The Teachers's Institute appointed for
last Saturday was a failure tor lack of
attendance.
Mr.. G. N. Galbreatb, one of our Jeffer-
son county subscribers, paid us pleas
ant call last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs, VIM. Maxwell leave TO-
day for New Orleans to attend the great
firemen's parade and display.
Mrs. Max and J osh Priebatsch and Miss
Jennie Simon paid visit last week to
Mrs. Eugene Hyman of Summit.
DrC. w. Carter, Editor Of the New
Orleans Christian Advocate, will preach
in the Methodist church next Sunday.
A Baptist mite meeting for the benefit
of Union Hall church will be held at the
residence of Mr.. Gus. Maxwell tonight.
Some of our young people enjoyed
singing at the Presbyterian church last
Sabbath night, as there was no service in
town.
The Baptist mite meeting will be held
tomorrow night at Mrs. Strickland's. A
spelling match will be one of the attrsc-
tons
Rev. Mr.. Watkins, on account of hav-
ing inherited somewhat of jobs offiic-
tiOns, could not fill his pulpit OH last
Sabbath.
Mr.. Jessie N. Smith, one of the progress
sive young farmers of the Union Hall
neighborhood, paid US substantial call
Monday.
The painters brush is being used indus
triously. On with the good work. There
is nothing like paint to beautify the hum
blest abode.
Capt. P. G. Milan extended hosptali-
ties to number of friends last Sunday, on
the occasion of Rev. J. X. Farish's preach
ing at Old Brook.
Aessrs. Sessions g. Cassidy and r. H.
Thompson, of the Brookhaven bar, were
in Jackson Monday in attendance upon
the Supreme Court.
Some of our early gardeners are enjoy
ing lettuce, radishes, mustard and spring
turnips, and have English peas in bloom.
This is a great country.
We learn that Mr.. Isaac Cope has leas-
ed tn Stern House and will soon embark
In the hotel business. THE LEADER wish
es him success in his new enterprise.
Mrs. Jno. Marshal is now one of the
faculty of Whitworth having accepted
the position left vacant by Mrs. L. J.
Cunning. Mrs. Marshall is q thorough
teacher.
The w. C. T. u. is preparing to have
q choice entertainment on their anniver-
sary, March the 25th. No admission fee
charged and the public is cordially invi-
ted to attend.
Mrs. Frilick is receiving from New
York the finest and cheapest stock of
spring millinery ever brought to this
market. The ladies should take due
notice aud give her call.
Mr.. Geo. Robert Cairns, who conducted
such successful revival meeting at the
Baptist church last fall, will shortly
sail for Europe for the purpose of con-
Quoting series of m ceilings.
Capt. d. C. Wright and family have
removed to Magnolia. Brookhaven re-
grets to lose them, and we commend them
tothe good people of Magnolia rs In every
way worthy of their esteem.
The farmers meeting, the proceedings
of which appear in another column, is
an excellent move in the right direction.
The publication was unavoidably delay
ed by the great pessure on our space OF
other matter.
Rev. 8. Fl. Nevils, tho pastor of the
colored Methodist church, has been as
signed to Pennington, near tho coast.
He has been at this place for the past
three years and was we'll thought of by
white and Observation-Disclosures MIR.
Nevils was also pastor ofthe Forest col
ored church at Brookhaven, and while
he filled the Hazlehurst pastorate, and
what the SignalCopiahan says of the
esteem In which he was held there, wal
equally true of him here.